Shop owner shot dead in Kokkuvil

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 July 2006, 14:49 GMT]Motorbike riding gunmen shot and killed a shop owner at Kolapiddy junction in Kokkuvil, a suburb of Jaffna town, inside the Sri Lanka Army High Security Zone (HSZ), around 6.30p.m., Thursday. Local residents blamed paramilitaries collaborating with Sri Lanka Army for the killing.

Sinnathurai Mangaleswaran,47, who was seriously injured in the incident succumbed to his injuries at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.

Two young men were shot and killed by motorbike riding assailants Thursday morning.